The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-12-05
BRIEF JoTTiNcs.

Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter Will hold Its
annual election tonight.
There were 30 arrests last week, of which
81 were for drunkenness.
The Loyal Legion will meet at the Fal-
mouth Hotel Wednesday evening.
Box No. sl5 has been placed opposite the
new union depot on st. John street.
st. Alban Commandery, Knights Templar,
win hold its annual election next Thursday
evening
The 9TH Maine Auxiliary Corps will meet
with Mrs. John Annatoyne, No. u Douglass
street. tomorrow.
The drawing school connected with the
Society of Art has 26 pupils-lO Of them in
the evening school. afc
We have received from Charles j. Fessen-
den, agent for the Sun Fire Insurance Co.,
calendars for 1883.
The report of the committee on removal Of
offal and the odorless carts will be made to
the City Council tonight.
Mr. Burnham is fitting up the Deering to-
boggan slide in good shape. 1t will be illu-
minated by one hundred torches.
The hind axle of team belonging ito Mr..
Emery Chase was broken Saturday by coils
ion with a Grand Trunk freight train.
The Relief Association of the Portland
Fire Department will givea dance at City
Hall JalgaylS 1oth. The tickets are now for
sale.
One Of the swans at Evergreen Cemetery
was found dead on the shore of the pond
Friday. 1t is thought he died from the severe
cold
The revenue cutter Levi Woodbury. is re-
ceiving a thorough overhauling and fitting up
for the business of the winter along the
Maine coast
A lot has been purchased bordering on
Duck Pond by Portland and Deering gentle
men, A cottage will erected thereon for a
club house.
Machigonne Tribe No. 3, Improved Order
of Red Men, will give dinner at Army and
Navy Hall Thursday evening. IChandler will
furnish the music.
Asbreak in the water pipe in Army and
Navy Block Friday night did considerable
damage to DR.. F. J. Donney's Office and also
damaged some of L. A. Gould's stock slight
ly.
A workman engaged in digging about Mr..
j. P. Baxter's new cottage at Mackworth's
: Island, Saturday, unearthed a human skull
and other bones. There was no appearance
of grave.
John Hooper of Biddeford injured his eyes
terribly by premature blast in Maine Gen.
trail railroad granite quarry at North Jay.
He was brought to the Maine General Hos
pital Saturday,
The Treasury Department has decided not
to appoint the usual number of winter in
4ol. af narf. nha
bly, because the foreign steamers will go to
Baltimore Dec. Doth.
At meeting of the committee on educa-
ton of the City Council, held Saturday even
ing. 1t was voted to recommend tto the city
government to appropriate $500 for the es-
adjustment of free evening school.
The regular monthly meeting of the McAll
Auxiliary French Mission will be held in
the vestry of the State street church this af-
ternoon at half-past o'clock All interested
are cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Patterson of Alfred gave an able lee
ture before the Young Mems Liberal Asso-
citation yesterday afternoon in Science Hall.
at the corner of Congress and Temple streets.
The hall was filled to its utmost capacity with
an intelligent class of ladies and gentlemen,
The regular meeting of the Society of Nat
ural History will be held this evening at 7.30
o'clock. Rev. Dir. Hill, who accompanied
Louis Agassiz on the Hassler expedition
around Cape Horn, will read q paper upon
the Physaia, or Portuguese man-of-war,
Officers Hanson and W. r. Frank arrested
Charles f. Kynes, Saturday night, on receipt
Of a despatch from Deputy Sheriff Hill of
Wateryiile. charging Ryues with the abduc-
tion Of two years old child andlthe larceny
of 500. On Rynes's person was found $145.
Among last weeks imports were 5737 bar
rels of salt. 4419 barrels of potatoes, 1888
tons of COAL $40 Quintals fish, and $50 tons of
pig iron. Among the exports was the Sar-
dinian's cargo, valued at Sl55,772, and the
cargoes of the Ellen Crusoe land Nickerson
previously given.
The Very Rev. j. W. Murphy, V. G., of st.
Dominic's church, at the services yesterday
morning thanked most gratefully the ladies
OF his parish and cathedral, and all the citi-
zens of Portland, non-Catholic and Catholic,
for their most generous support, which made
the late fair for the new st. Dominic's such
grand success. netting the large sum of SsiOO.